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Map based on last Senate election in each state as of 2024. Starting with the 2000 United States presidential election, the terms "red state" and "blue state" have referred to US states whose voters vote predominantly for one party—the Republican Party in red states and the Democratic Party in blue states—in presidential and other statewide elections.
A unified colour scheme (blue for Democrats, red for Republicans) began to be implemented with the 1996 presidential election; in the weeks following the 2000 election, there arose the terminology of red states and blue states. Political observers latched on to this association, which resulted from the use of red for Republican victories and ...
The idea of “red states” and “blue states” may feel deeply embedded in the symbolism of US politics, but before 2000 the colors were often the other way around. Republicans are red and ...
The "blue wall" is a term coined in 2009 in the political culture of the United States to refer to the dozen-or-so states (along with Washington, D.C.) that reliably "voted blue" i.e. for the Democratic Party in the six consecutive presidential elections from 1992 to 2012. This trend suggested a fundamental dominance in presidential politics ...
An average of nearly twice as many people per capita are now hospitalized for COVID-19 in states that voted for Donald Trump in 2020 as in states that voted for Joe Biden, according to a Yahoo ...
"There are no red states or blue states, just the United States," Barack Obama memorably declaimed at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. In that speech, which instantly thrust the then-U.S ...
Wave elections in the United States are elections in which a political party makes major gains. Based on the "red states and blue states" color coding convention in use since 2000, wave elections have often been described as either "blue waves" or "red waves" depending on which party makes significant gains, referring to a major increase in seats held by either the Democratic Party (associated ...
Americans are segregating by their politics at a rapid clip, helping fuel the greatest divide between the states in modern history. Conservatives go to red states, Democrats to blue as the country ...